Healthy People Curriculum Task Force Data Collection
The Healthy People Curriculum Task Force (Task Force) was established in 2002 by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) to encourage the implementation of Healthy People 2010 Objective 1.7: “To increase the proportion of schools of medicine, schools of nursing and health professional training schools whose basic curriculum for healthcare providers includes the core competencies in health promotion and disease prevention.”
The national health professions associations that comprise the Task Force have collected information from their member institutions to help track progress in the integration of clinical prevention and population health content in health professions curricula, as measured by the Healthy People objectives. Although early efforts to collect data for Healthy People 2010 were limited to the medical (DO- and MD- granting medical schools) and nursing (baccalaureate nursing and nurse practitioner) fields, data was collected from seven professions for Healthy People 2020 Educational and Community-Based Programs Objectives 12-18.
The data that have been collected since as early as 1999 reveal trends toward the universal inclusion of some topic areas in clinical prevention and population health, such as counseling for behavior change and evaluation of health sciences literature, but a continuing need to facilitate the inclusion of other topic areas, namely environmental health, global health, and public health systems.
The Healthy People Data Executive Summary describes the 2020 mid-decade results compared to 2010 baseline. This report will be updated with end-of-decade results in March 2020.
The national health professions associations that comprise the Task Force have collected information from their member institutions to help track progress in the integration of clinical prevention and population health content in health professions curricula, as measured by the Healthy People objectives. Although early efforts to collect data for Healthy People 2010 were limited to the medical (DO- and MD- granting medical schools) and nursing (baccalaureate nursing and nurse practitioner) fields, data was collected from seven professions for Healthy People 2020 Educational and Community-Based Programs Objectives 12-18.
The data that have been collected since as early as 1999 reveal trends toward the universal inclusion of some topic areas in clinical prevention and population health, such as counseling for behavior change and evaluation of health sciences literature, but a continuing need to facilitate the inclusion of other topic areas, namely environmental health, global health, and public health systems.
The Healthy People Data Executive Summary describes the 2020 mid-decade results compared to 2010 baseline. This report will be updated with end-of-decade results in March 2020.
Download the Healthy People Data Collection Executive Summary:
| HP_Data_Executive_Summary_Feb2018.pdf |
